# Joey Dale

> Staff Engineer at Bold Penguin.

Location: Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joeydale

I am a solution driven IT professional with a proven track record of exceeding expectations, and solving difficult problems in elegant and innovative ways, specializing front end development, as well as real time, full text search using technologies such as Node.JS, Angular, React, Electron, Solr, Java, and the Apache Big Data Stack, including Hadoop, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spark, Storm, and HBase.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Bold Penguin
Jan 2026 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Bold Penguin
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Doran Jones Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Tampa, Florida, United States
Led multiple teams of junior developers on both greenfield projects and code quality initiatives on legacy projects in various angular versions for a Fortune 50 financial organization.

Developed and implemented code quality improvement strategies for large legacy projects.

### Principal Application Developer @ Raymond James
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Led development of multiple modern SPA applications using Angular versions 2 -12.

Mentored junior developers on best practice for long term maintainability and performance.

Developed transformational SOLR data loading service, which expanded the use cases for SOLR full text search within the organization.

Worked directly with business users to design and develop solutions to enhance business outcomes.

Architected and developed multiple distributed multi-user systems.

### Programmer Analyst @ Catalina Marketing
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
Led, designed, implemented, and maintained full stack solutions to access and act on massive datasets in the 100M row range at high speed and low latency.

Built out devops team and practices, developed an AWS based solution for distributed big data processing, using Solr, s3, EC2 and other technologies.

Provided support for legacy applications. Plan and implement sunset and decommission of legacy applications.

Used Node, Puppet, Solr, Oracle, Netezza, Java, Spring, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS, Azure, and other technologies.

### IT Intern @ Catalina Marketing
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Implemented complex big data solutions.

Assist in the high level design and engineering of big data systems.

Design and implement procedures and SQL scripts.

Provide support to users for various systems.

Work closely with the Systems Admin, Networking, and DBA teams to provide root cause analysis for outages involving production systems.

Key member of a team in the first Catalina Marketing Hackathon, which took 2nd place overall.


## Education
### Associate’s Degree in Engineering
Hillsborough College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joeydale

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Last updated: 2026-03-22